An editor from Taiwan who went missing was detained by China on suspicion of national security crimes. Read more at straitstimes.com.
TAIPEI - Publishers in Taiwan warned their peers on Friday not to visit mainland China and Hong Kong after an editor from the island who went missing was detained on suspicion of national security crimes.
In Taipei on Friday, Taiwan-based editors and activists told a press briefing that Mr Li’s case had cast a “chilling effect” over the island’s literary community and many now feared going to China. “It doesn’t just apply to the publishing industry – even people who wrote something critical of China on Facebook are afraid,” he said.Chinese President Xi Jinping has presided over a crackdown on freedoms during his decade in power, with pressure stepped up on dissidents, rights groups and other critics of the government.
A dissident poet said last month it was believed that Mr Li had been “secretly detained” in Shanghai while visiting family in March.“Are the two sides going to continue like this? This is not okay,” he said.
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